Fundamentals Course

✓ Six units covering everything you need to launch
✓ Worked pricing examples and contract clauses explained
✓ One open-book online exam, sat when you are ready
✓ 30-day money-back guarantee
✓ Flexible, self-paced online learning with lifetime access
✓ Instant access to course materials
✓ Priced in USD

Course last updated: August 2026

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Here's what you'll learn in our Fundamentals Course

Unit 1

Lawn Care Business Foundations

Understanding how a lawn care round makes money, and why route density decides it
Choosing between residential mowing, commercial grounds work, and full-service care
Working out your real mowing season and what that means for annual income
Evaluating startup costs honestly, from a push mower to a trailer
Learning the legal basics: business structures, insurance, and what needs a license

Unit 2

Setting Up Your Business

Registering your business name and obtaining the permits your state requires
Choosing a business structure, and insuring equipment as well as liability
Setting up simple bookkeeping that survives a season of cash and card jobs
Opening a business bank account and separating fuel and equipment spending
Writing the policies that prevent disputes: rain delays, gate access, and late payment

Unit 3

Pricing Lawn Care for Profit

Working out your true cost per hour, including fuel, blades, and mower depreciation
Pricing by lot size and drive time rather than by guesswork
Choosing between per-cut pricing, monthly billing, and an even-spread annual contract
Quoting overgrown first cuts and seasonal cleanups off timed work rather than by comparison
Handling the price objection, and knowing which properties to walk away from

Unit 4

Equipment, Mowing Standards and Safety

Buying equipment in the order it pays for itself, and knowing what to buy used
Setting cutting height by grass type and season, and why scalping costs you clients
Sharpening and balancing blades, and the finish quality a dull blade gives away
Working a property efficiently: mow, trim, edge, blow, and the order that saves time
Working safely with eye and ear protection, and knowing that chemical application needs a license

Unit 5

Client Experience and Retention

Onboarding a new property properly: the walk-round, the expectations, the access
Communicating about rain delays and schedule changes before the client asks
Handling complaints about a missed strip, a rut, or a damaged sprinkler head
Building the loyalty that survives a competitor knocking with a lower price
Asking for referrals at the moment a client is most likely to give one

Unit 6

Getting Your First Lawns

Launching route-first: winning a street rather than scattering across a city
Using your own neighborhood and network for the first paying properties
Setting up the free listings that put you in front of local searches
Writing a door hanger somebody keeps, priced without a coupon or a free first cut
Scripts for the door, the phone, and the neighbor watching you work

Unit 7Fast Track Course only

Marketing on a Budget

Setting up and ranking a Google Business Profile in your service area
Using yard signs and truck presence as the cheapest advertising in this trade
Timing spring signup campaigns to when homeowners actually start searching
Showing before-and-after work without overpromising what you can deliver
Partnering with landscapers, arborists and property managers for referred work

Unit 8Fast Track Course only

Route Density and Operating Systems

Measuring route density and understanding what every extra mile of drive time costs
Building a weekly schedule that groups properties instead of criss-crossing town
Using checklists so quality holds on the fortieth lawn of the week
Automating invoicing, reminders and recurring billing
Loading and organizing the trailer so nothing is unloaded twice

Unit 9Fast Track Course only

Hiring and Running a Crew

Knowing when a second pair of hands pays for itself, and when it does not
Finding and vetting reliable help in a trade with high seasonal turnover
Training a new hire to your finish standard rather than hoping they have one
Supervising work you do not watch, and what proof of service looks like
Managing the payroll, tax and insurance a first employee brings with them

Unit 10Fast Track Course only

Scaling, Seasonality and Long-Term Growth

Planning the off-season in July rather than November, and pricing for twelve months
Adding off-season revenue: leaf cleanups, gutters, snow, and holiday lighting
Adding treatment services only where you hold the license the work requires
Winning commercial and HOA contracts for revenue that does not churn each spring
Building a round that can be handed over, and knowing what makes one saleable

What it costs to be wrong

Quote a job in ten minutes and know you made money on it

6 units and one exam. Unit 3 works the pricing formula through real numbers, so the first quote you write after it is one you can defend.

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Lawn Care Business Institute certificate

Quick and easy online exam

When you finish the training you take a short, open-book online exam with a 99% pass rate. Pass it and you earn your Lawn Care Business Certification as a Certified Lawn Care Business Professional (C.L.B.P.), with a personalized certificate you can share with clients.